[Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix networks

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:33:01 +0000 radix42 at gmail.com wrote:
> Iang wrote:
> 
> >Why do we need the 1980s assumption of >being able to send freely
> >to everyone, anyway?
> 
> tech.support at I.bought.your.busted.thing.com is one that comes to
> mind. info at sale.me.your.thing.com is another. I think the types of
> "prior whitelist only" secure systems being discussed on-list here
> lately will in the long run win out with the lions share of
> messages, but that bog standard 'dirty' email will persist for
> commercial interactions of the type I list above.

On the other hand, tech.support at sillycompany could just accept all
contact requests, at least temporarily.

Perry
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